Spanish Abstract: En este documento se estudian las relaciones causales entre conflicto armado, disuasión del crimen y violencia homicida. Se emplean datos de corte transversal a nivel municipal que comprenden el periodo del 2000 al 2014. El estudio utiliza una muestra que contiene aquellos...

This article contributes to the literature on the impact of transitional justice measures using microfoundational evidence from experiments. We argue that there is a distributional dilemma at the heart of transitional justice programs, given that the State must allocate goods and services both...

The main objective of this paper is to provide empirical evidence on the mechanisms that shape the relationship between violent conflict and collective action. Conflict dynamics in Colombia allow us to exploit rich variation in armed group presence and individual participation in local...

Spanish Abstract: Este artículo estudia los legados de las instituciones creadas en tiempos de guerra, medidas como rebelocracia, sobre la capacidad de los hogares para mitigar choques negativos de ingresos. La rebelocracia es el orden social establecido por los actores armados no estatales...

In April 2013, a decrease in the export with simultaneous growth in import was observed; due to the above the surplus of the trade balance of the Russian Federation dropped dramatically. In Russia’s foreign trade turnover, the share of CIS states keeps decreasing. On June 25, at the meeting of...

In May 2013, a trend of reduction of the Russian trade surplus which started in June 2012 continued. The US, Turkey and Japan joined the claim against Russia fi led by the European Union on July 2013 to the Court of the World Trade Organization. The Russian side intends to take every effort to...

In June 2013, the Russian foreign trade key indicators saw an insignificant growth on a year-on-year basis. Growth in exports was determined by increase in physical volumes of exports against falling export prices, whereas growth in imports was governed by increase in import prices against...

The key factor influencing the dynamics of foreign trade indicators in early 2014 was continuing ruble depreciation which had begun last year, resulting in an increase in exports with a simultaneous decrease in imports. The ‘Trade and Investment Barriers Report, 2013’, published by the...

In February 2014, the main indices of the Russian foreign trade dropped considerably. The European Union submitted to the Secretariat of the World Trade Organization a query as regards consultations with the Russian Federation as regards measures affecting the import of live pigs, pork and pork...

In September 2013, the main indices of the Russian foreign trade did not virtually change, which situation was justified by slowdown of the growth rates of the global economy, worsening of the global market situation for Russian commodities, as well as reduction of the aggregate demand on the...